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Are there lessons from French local government reorganisation?

A major top down reorganisation of regional government on the other side of La Manche suggests a considered examination of the administrative structure that would best suit England should be undertaken, writes Michael Burton.

A few days in northern France last week gave me blessed relief from the banality and unfunded promises of the UK election campaign which in the French press merited one paragraph, on the nom-dom tax.

Very quickly however, my mind turned to local government reorganisation – not because I am an anorak, but because it was all over the French media.

Michael Burton

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